In Summer 2011, a group of educators from the Auburn City Schools, AMSTI, and Auburn University had the opportunity to participate in an amazing experience - to experience microgravity!

This is done by flying on NASA famed “Weightless Wonder” aircraft, more affectionately known as the “Vomit Comet”.

As part of this experience, the team developed a number of experiments that are based upon projects that are already part of the K-8 curriculum in Alabama schools.

It is hoped that visitors to these pages will perform the ground-based projects and then use the many photographs, videos, and lesson plans given on these pages to show what happens to these same experiments in reduced gravity and hypergravity conditions.